Today, Drew has already visited 163 countries and plans to visit every country in the world. His strategy as a content creator is to make one video per day. “You can’t just overnight become a successful video-maker or anything with any profession,” he said. “If you’re a golfer, you can’t just wake up tomorrow and be on the PGA Tour.”
Drew claims he never set out to make it big.
In the first few years of living overseas, he used to update his travel blog and post videos to his Snapchat account. But his career really took off after he took an organized trip to North Korea and posted videos from the trip that collectively generated more than 10 million views.
His income, meanwhile, can vary greatly. He said he’s earned between $1,000 and $30,000 in a single month, depending on the number of views his videos generate. “I never look at the money as a motivation or a drive to do what I do,” he said.
Meanwhile, he keeps his travel costs as low as possible and travels on a tight budget.
His parents now accept that he’s not getting a corporate job anytime soon.
“It’s just amazing, the millennial generation, they will figure out,” Danny said. “Five, six, ten years ago, this didn’t exist.”
His parents Danny and Ellen are now traveling to places like Vietnam and Thailand, even though they had never left the U.S. before Drew moved abroad. “It’s opened up our lives to different cultures, different foods and ya know, different areas,” Ellen said.
Drew said he feels a sense of validation when his parents approve of what he’s doing.
“There’s like an, ‘Ah-ha’ moment, where I’m like, ‘Yea, I’m happy they’re seeing what I’m doing is real,'” he said.
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